Elizabeth Wakefield (Sally Andrews), a young girl who lives in Middleton, New Zealand during the 1950s, idolizes Queen Elizabeth II and writes to her continuously when she hears that the Queen will be making a visit to New Zealand, to convince her to make her town one of the stops.

The thoughts in the town are that the Maori are not to be trusted, and there is resentment as the young boys of the local tribe start to take jobs from the white English townspeople.

Hira comes to investigate the noise, causing Elizabeth and her best friend Annabel to turn tail and run into hiding quickly.

Elizabeth's father believes his cheese factory should be one of the stops, but is blocked at every turn by the granddaughter of the founder of the town.

Elizabeth manages to escape by cutting the rope tying the gate shut with the medallion Hira gave her.

Together, she and Annabel discover the Queen has received all the letters Elizabeth had been writing, and was so intrigued by her story of Hira Mata, she decided to make that her stop in Middleton.

The Queen not only agrees, but returns to Hira Mata her father's ceremonial spear, as a gesture of good will and friendship between the Maori tribe and the English Crown.

Her Majesty was first released theatrically in the U.S. in April 2004 and continued to screen in select cities through March 2005, with positive reviews.

[citation needed] The film was released in January 2005 in New Zealand to positive reviews, though it performed poorly at the box office, perhaps due to limited promotion and exposure.